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Yes, these are all good examples of how these imperatives manifest in law and why they are so unsustainable. Capitalism is not capable of long-term planning because of this, it depends on an immaterial world to exist and therefore does not consider the reality of the world it exists in.
When they say it can do jobs, they aren't actually claiming that it can, what they're saying is that they can argue that it can, and that creates its own value. They've fired and rehired people, done layoffs, cut wages, cut salary and contract benefits; all of this makes labour cheaper, which validates that value and raises the speculative value.